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Top News: Egypt Arrests Militants Recruiting for ISIS

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Jul 29, 2025

Inside the Israeli government’s starvation of Gaza, from an aid group trying to deliver food

Israel has systematically denied aid entry into Gaza, and perpetuated false narratives intended to discredit the humanitarian community.

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Top News: Egypt Arrests Militants Recruiting for ISIS

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Jul 31, 2025

Beyond tariffs: Building a win-win relationship between the US and Iraq

By
Ahmed Tabaqchali

Iraq is among the countries to face a 30 percent tariff starting August 1 on its exports to the United States.

Energy Markets & Governance
Iraq

Top News: Egypt Arrests Militants Recruiting for ISIS

MENASource
Jul 30, 2025

After Swaida: How Syria’s periphery is shaping its future

By
Ibrahim Al-Assil

What comes next in Syria will not be determined by battlefield victories or summit declarations, but by the evolving realities on the ground.

Conflict
Democratic Transitions

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Oct 6, 2014

Top News: Egypt Arrests Militants Recruiting for ISIS

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s state news agency says security forces have arrested four suspected members of a militant cell recruiting fighters for the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham.

MENASource

Oct 6, 2014

EconSource: Yemen Reform Plan Still Broadly In Line with IMF Loan Terms– Lagarde

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries. 

MENASource

Oct 3, 2014

The Campaign Against ISIS: Is Syria an Afterthought?

By Frederic C. Hof

There is a belief in certain quarters of the Pentagon, and perhaps elsewhere in the executive branch, that the military mission of the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS, or ISIL) is to defeat ISIS in Iraq; that airstrikes in Syria are intended only to enhance the ability of the Iraqi […]

Syria

MENASource

Oct 3, 2014

Top News: ISIS Tightens Noose Around Ayn al-Arab; Turkish Parliament Expands War Powers

By MENASource

ISIS fighters continued to close in on three sides of the border town of Ayan al-Arab (Kobani in Kurdish), digging trenches and lobbing mortar fire. Kurdish sources predicted a wide-scale massacre should ISIS overrun the city. The campaign by ISIS has already captured over one hundred villages and displaced approximately 300,000. 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Oct 3, 2014

Top News: Political Actors Call on Sisi to Release Revolutionary Youth for Eid

By EgyptSource

Abeer Suleiman, central committee member and campaign coordinator of the People’s Alliance, called on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to start a new page and release imprisoned youth bearing light charges.

MENASource

Oct 2, 2014

Syria: Give Diplomacy a Fighting Chance

By Frederic C. Hof

Even habitual critics of the United Nations should acknowledge that its Secretary-General has recruited top-drawer international diplomatic talent in the search for peace in Syria. Kofi Annan, Lakhdar Brahimi, and now Staffan de Mistura: statesmen who lack little in resourcefulness, creativity, discipline, and dedication.

Syria

MENASource

Oct 2, 2014

Top News: ISIS Closes in on Kurdish Border Town; Beheads Seven Men, Three Women

By MENASource

ISIS militants tightened their grip on a Syrian border town on Thursday—coming within two miles on three sides, despite coalition air strikes meant to weaken them—sending thousands more Kurdish refugees into Turkey and dragging Ankara deeper into the conflict.

MENASource

Oct 2, 2014

Top News: Egypt Militant Group Threatens Deadly Attacks during Eid Holiday

Egypt’s deadliest militant group has vowed fresh deadly attacks against security forces next week during the country’s major Muslim feast.

MENASource

Oct 2, 2014

Iconoclasm & the Islamic State: Image-Maker vs. Image-Breaker

By Matthew Hall

A Q&A With Dr. James Noyes, Part II of III More than merely a terror group, the Islamic State is a violent state-building project, conquering territory with the intent to rule. In clearing the landscape to impose this political agenda, an essential component of the group’s military advance has been the systematic destruction of holy […]

Syria

MENASource

Oct 2, 2014

Tunisia Prepares For Its Ultimate Democratic Ordeal

By Christine Petré

As Tunisia prepares for upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, low turnout or time constraints are a main concern. Aside from the fact that they have their own ramifications for political legitimacy, Tunisian leaders also fear that militant groups could compound the legitimacy problem by disrupting the elections and potentially destabilizing the Arab Spring country’s democratic […]

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